I am witness to and aspirant of alchemy

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"Crave wisdom of God, the sense to understand,

Else meddle not herewith, nor take it in hand.

For it will cost thee much wordly wealth;

But trust not to other, but do it thyself.

Learn, therefore, first to cleanse, purify and sublime,

To dissolve, congeal, distill and, sometime

To conjoin and separate, and how to do all,

That when you think to rise, thou do not fall,

Trust to thyself and not to another;

I can say no more to thee if thou were my brother." 

- Simon Forman 1597

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“alchemy exists to transform mortals from a state of suffering to enlightenment”

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endogenous alchemy is the only possible panacea for humanity — as individuals, as families, as communities, as a civilization — and for all we have wrought upon our fellow non-human Earthlings and upon Earth, herself

no matter what situations or circumstance we face, we have an escape route: transforming our own mind.

– S. Rinpoche

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